Discovering talents for God’s kingdom
Executive Director · India
Founder and Executive Director of 5Talents Magazine, writing from Hyderabad. He has written the magazine's editorial column since the first issue in July 2012.
Filming ended on Thursday 24 September near Dallas. Jonathan Roumie quoted Paul, Dallas Jenkins cried at the wrap party, and the crucifixion reaches Prime Video on 15 November. In India, churches have been screening Episode 1 since September.
A one-day leadership conference in Hyderabad on 31 October has been designed so that nobody reaches the stage without passing a job fair first. ₹399, doors at half past eight.
Theja Rio's debut, set among the Konyak Naga in 1962, just won Toronto's Platform Prize. It isn't a Christian film, but it asks a question Indian Christians live with every day.
A three-part docuseries about a worship leader, her pastor husband and the questions nobody at church asked in time.
Episode 1 opens on the night Jesus is arrested. Until 15 November, church is the only place you can watch it.
Eighteen issues, a new baby, a format that stopped working, and a website taken from us. What happened to 5Talents in 2014 — and what returns in January.
Charity relieves a hardship for a week. Ability changes what a family can do for the next twenty years. That is the argument, and Indian churches are sitting on the resources to act on it.
The manager who never leaves the chair. The supreme leader who decides by preference. And Elijah, who went from calling down fire to lying under a tree asking to die.
The outrage lasts about a fortnight. Then the protests thin out, the panel discussions move on, and the country goes back to chalta hai until the next one is brutal enough to interrupt us.
There is no lecture in that passage. No list of reasons he should keep going, no reminder of who was depending on him. An angel touched him and said the journey was too much for him, which it was.
The illustration works. The trouble is what we usually do with it, which is to tell people to press the brake harder and then act surprised when they cannot.
Twelve men watched bread multiply in their own hands at lunchtime. By three in the morning they were rowing into a headwind and frightened out of their wits. Mark tells you exactly why.
Flags, the anthem, the telecast from the Red Fort. Then a year in which a girl was surrounded outside a bar in Guwahati and an infant died in Punjab over two hundred rupees.
Somebody has told you that you are good for nothing. Matthew 25 does not open with what the servants produced. It opens with what they were handed.
